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The Autumn of the Patriarch

Book by Gabriel García Márquez · 10 quotes · Dictador, Dictator, Marquez

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“...que carajo, si al fin y al cabo cuando yo me muera volverán los políticos a repartirse esta vaina como en los tiempos de los godos, ya lo verán, decía, se volverán a repartir todo entre los curas, los gringos y los ricos, y nada para los pobres, por supuesto, porque ésos estarán siempre tan jodidos que el día en que la mierda tenga algún valor los pobres nacerán sin culo...”

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“an old man with no destiny with our never knowing who he was, or what he was like, or even if he was only a figment of the imagination, a comic tyrant who never knew where the reverse side was and where the right of this life which we loved with an insatiable passion that you never dared even to imagine out of the fear of knowing what we knew only too well that it was arduous and ephemeral but there wasn't any other, general, because we knew who we were while he was left never knowing it forever with the soft whistle of his rupture of a dead old man cut off at the roots by the slash of death, flying through the dark sound of the last frozen leaves of his autumn toward the homeland of shadows of the truth of oblivion, clinging to his fear of the rotting cloth of death's hooded cassock and alien to the clamor of the frantic crowds who took to the streets singing hymns of joy at the jubilant news of his death and alien forevermore to the music of liberation and the rockets of jubilation and the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end.”

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